Slumming: Sexual and Racial Encounters in American Nightlife, 1885-1940 (Historical Studies of Urban America) by Heap, Chad

Slumming: Sexual and Racial Encounters in American Nightlife, 1885-1940 (Historical Studies of Urban America)



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Slumming: Sexual and Racial Encounters in American Nightlife, 1885-1940 (Historical Studies of Urban America) Heap, Chad
Language: English
Page: 432
Format: pdf
ISBN: 0226322432, 9780226322438
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Heap’s enthralling history defines “slumming” broadly, to encompass the activities of Victorian social reformers, who enjoyed dropping in on immigrant households, and the “Negro vogue” and “pansy and lesbian craze” of the nineteen-thirties. He concentrates on Chicago and New York, where anti-vice committees documented salaciousness from the red-light districts of the Lower East Side to the “bohemian thrill-age” of the Village and the cross-dressing “sex morons” farther north. His evidence suggests that immigrants, bohemians, blacks, and gays provided the city’s best live entertainment; according to Heap, they also provided a backdrop of degradation against which whiteness and heterosexuality defined themselves. The racial, social, and sexual implications of each slumming fad, “from the best intentioned to the most horrifyingly exploitative,” are assiduously parsed, perhaps to mitigate the inherent titillation of the material.
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“Exhaustively researched and beautifully written, Chad Heap''s investigation of slumming as an urban mass phenomenon gives us a vivid and astonishingly detailed account of the black and tans, bohemian tearooms, and pansy and lesbian nightclubs where the cultural boundaries of race and sexuality were crossed, tested, and recast in the early twentieth century.”—George Chauncey, author of Gay New York

(George Chauncey )

“Slumming is a sophisticated, engaging work of American social and cultural history, an important book that will appeal to a very wide scholarly and popular audience. It is well-written, carefully crafted and structured, with a powerful set of arguments sure to reorient our understandings of sexuality, race, leisure, nightlife, urban geography, and modernity. Heap''s assertions are bold, his anyalysis subtle and convincing—and on top of that, Slumming is a really good read, lively and satisfying.”—John Howard, King''s College London (John Howard )

"''Slumming'' is the concept of people seeing ''how the other half lives.'' People went slumming either as an academic pursuit or with prurient interests, or both. Beginning in the 1880s with white males visiting prostitutes or gamblers in the working-class and immigrant neighborhoods in New York''s Harlem and Chicago''s Bronzeville, slumming extended to middle-class whites visiting these areas, usually in the company of a police officer, as a new form of recreation spurred by curiosity and desire. Heap sees four phases of slumming in this fascinating, readable, but hardly titillating history. The red light phase ran from the 1880s to WW I, which overlapped the bohemian phase during the 1910s and 1920s. The Negro phase, perhaps the best known in popular imagery, ran through the 1920s and 1930s, overlapping and succeeded by the pansy/lesbian phase, which continued through the 1940s. Throughout, Heap highlights his monograph with detailed accounts of black and tan cabarets, tearooms, and rent parties that broadened the perspectives of both visitors and residents. . . . Recommended. All levels/libraries."--Choice

(Choice )

“[An] enthralling history. . . . assiduously parsed, perhaps to mitigate the inherent titillation of the material.”—New Yorker

(New Yorker )

 “This is a beautiful book that will be a milestone in our understandings of sexuality, race, normalcy, and metropolitan American modernity.”—American Historical Review (American Historical Review )

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